As far as deleted scenes (and novelizations) go, they don’t count for much. We also can’t really account for all the time between Luke and company’s escape from the Death Star and the big meeting concerning plans for its destruction. I mean, Lando just as randomly ends up a general in Return of the Jedi. I’m sure they would have verified Luke’s piloting skills, with or without Biggs’ endorsement. It’s not really necessary to explain either of those recruitment periods.

Either way, I can’t even remember why we’re discussing this, so I say let’s just forget it. I mean, that worked really for Uncle Owen, so…

I still hope that Rey doesn’t have any family connection at all to the Skywalkers, or anyone else. It’d be nice for her to just be a kid who turned out to have the Force, and who was trained by Luke because of that. Just show the Force is actually around, and not just in one elite family. Same for Snoke, really - be nice to have him not really connected to the other movies. It’s a big and old galaxy, after all.

But this is Star Wars, so presumably everyone is everyone else’s second cousin, aunt or grandson, and every robot that pops up has been built by one of the characters in their childhood, just because.

I’d argue that what makes Star Wars relevant is the small story, about the Skywalkers and the people whose lives intersect with theirs, that happens against the big story, the backdrop of war and rebellion. If you drift too far away from that, in my opinion that’s just not Star Wars. It’s some other story that happens to have been placed in the Star Wars universe. I think Dark Horse particularly got that horribly wrong, so in that sense I’m very glad they no longer have the rights to the saga.

…That being said, I would probably shit kittens if Rey were Luke’s daughter. Though it’d be pretty funny to have a different connection, like maybe a remnant of the Organas, the family that originally adopted Leia, something like that. Just imagine…!

…That being said, I would probably shit kittens if Rey were Luke’s daughter.

It’s way too obvious, I would be very sad if that’s the answer. I think it may be Obi Wan, he spoke to her in the dream thingy (with two actors in fact). Although it would mean he’d be shagging a bit late in the day so maybe his granddaughter.

[quote=“YoungDuke, post:292, topic:4562, full:true”] Though it’d be pretty funny to have a different connection, like maybe a remnant of the Organas, the family that originally adopted Leia, something like that. Just imagine…!
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One: there’d have to be a remnant of the Organas that wasn’t atomized. Two: that remnant would have to be Force-sensitive. I never quite got that kind of vibe from Bail Organa.

It would have to be a pretty big assumption that all the Organas were still on Alderaan when it was obliterated. It’s not inconceivable that Leia became too busy with her further Rebellion duties to pay attention to family that ended up on a distant planet like Jakku, which would actually be deliciously circular storytelling in ways other than Force Awakens already gave us.

Some Star Wars fans have launched a petition to have George Lucas, creator of the galaxy far, far away, return to the franchise for Episode IX.

Episode IX is all set to be directed by Jurassic World man, Colin Trevorrow.

“We have no problem with Colin Trevorrow, but he’s not the right guy to direct Star Wars: Episode IX,” the campaign states. “George Lucas as director of Episode IX would be the perfect way to end this new trilogy and make an epic farewell between the Father of Star Wars and the whole universe of the galaxy far, far away.”